Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Abstract

There are many people who continue to suffer depression, fear, anger and aggression but are unaware of the simple remedy in Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to the seemingly complicated problems. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has proved to be very useful in psychotherapy and is today considered as one of the highly effective methods in treatment of Cognitive and behavioural problems. CBT teaches the client or person suffering how to change their negative thought patterns and alter their behaviours that are triggered by the thoughts. This paper focuses on how CBT has proven to be one of the major orientations in psychotherapy and represents a unique category of psychologically driven interventions because it is derived from

When the problem is overrated, such cases are commonly referred to a counsellor. However, many parts of the world have been using simple psychotherapy remedies for many years. These remedies are cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT). Therefore, cognitive behavioural therapies are interventions that are collectively in agreement that cognitive factors are behind psychological distresses as well as mental disorders. Therapists in cognitive behavioural therapy work towards the identification and treatment of difficulties that are caused by difficulties mentioned above as well as difficulties in learning and misperceptions (Goldberg, 2001:

The distortions in thinking may be as a result of lack of planning or inaccurate information processing.

- Cognitions cause distortions in the way a person with the cognitive problem perceives things which can be either by irrational thinking or cognitive triads.

- Humans interact with the world by the way of mental representation about it. It follows that if the mental representations are inaccurate; reasoning becomes inadequate which results in distorted emotions and behaviour.

As Chambless et al. (2001: 702) states, when CBT is administered, the behaviour part in the therapy involves the ‘homework’ part for the client which can be in the form of having a diary on thoughts and the therapist gives tasks to the client in order to help then change irrational beliefs.

The idea behind is that the client is able to identify own unhelpful beliefs and then prove them wrong which is supposed to result in change of beliefs. As an example, a person who has phobia or anxiety about social settings may be arranged to meet a friend in a public place such as a restaurant or pub for a drink thereby fighting with the phobia through self determination.

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